Man Work Unit et Man Equivalent

The Blind Man at Work

I F there is one class of human beings more assured of the support and sympathy of us all?-provided that our sluggish memories are constantly jogged?it is the class of those who enter upon their daily round always in total darkness. But our sympathy and support need guidance. When the blind beggar, groping his way along the street with his stick and his dog and his little tin can, receives the ...

REVIEW Motor Unit Firing Behavior in Man

Studies on motor unit firing behavior in man by the decomposition technique are described. The decomposition technique identifies motor unit firing with 100% accuracy at force levels of greater than 80% maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). In all muscles examined, the higher the recruitment threshold of the motor unit, the lower the rate at which it fired at the target level. Smaller muscles, s...

Alfred Adler. The Man and His Work

Herman Boerhaave, the Man and his Work

Professor Lindeboom has assembled in this biography of the leading European physician of his age, twenty years or more deep study of Boerhaave and his works. It is a magnum opus which must for the foreseeable future remain the standard biography of a rare polymath, and it appeared happily in time for the tercentenary celebrations of Boerhaave's birth in 1688. Its publication ifils a longstandin...

Alfred Adler: the Man and His Work